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June 19, 2018

Leftist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Challenging NY Rep. Joe Crowley in Next Week's Primary
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And Move On, the United States' largest online progressive organization,
has broken with House Democratic leadership and endorsed Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, who is challenging New York Congressmember Joe Crowley.
Crowley's name is regularly floated as a potential speaker of the House,
but he's facing his first primary challenge in 14 years. Ocasio-Cortez
is a 28-year-old community organizer. In a debate with Crowley on NY1,
moderated by Errol Louis, Ocasio-Cortez called for the abolition of ICE,
that's the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. This clip begins
with Crowley.

Joe Crowley: "This government is separating children from their mothers.
It is antithetical to everything that I believe in, and that's what I
fight for every day."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "And you know what, if this organization is as
fascist as you have called it-"

Joe Crowley: "I have said it's fascist."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "And you have said it's fascist. Then why
don't you you adopt the stance to eliminate it? This is a moral problem,
and your response has been to apply more paperwork to this situation, to
have ICE collect more information on immigrants. And that puts our
communities in danger. It also conveys a profound misunderstanding about
how we should approach this problem."

That's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is challenging New York Congress
member Joe Crowley in next Tuesday's primary.


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